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Saturday, November 19, 2016

Don’t be a slave state of global capital〜Protest against undemocratic decision on TPP

Japan’s
lower house forced passed TPP on Nov. 4. Outraged by the undemocratic decision-making,
people gathered around the Diet, calling it unreal. Without sufficiently debating
TPP, Prime Minster Abe’s government has pushed TPP by force before the US
presidential election. “Farmers feel completely lost,” a farmer who came from
Akita that day said at the protest. “If the price of rice keeps falling, we
will no longer be able to grow rice in Japan. What are we going to do in remote
mountainous countries?” TPP is a system where global capitals set the rule pertaining
GMOs, medicine, employment among other things. “The worst problem is that we
will be deprived of our rights, and so will our government,” one woman pointed
out. “Corporations will gain the right to sue a government under ISDS. We
should not allow a system of state slavery.” (By M)